FreeBSD : haproxy -- information leak vulnerability (cbfa8bd7-24b6-11e5-86ff-14dae9d210b8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84601

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

HAProxy reports :

A vulnerability was found when HTTP pipelining is used. In some cases, a client might be able to cause a buffer alignment issue and retrieve uninitialized memory contents that exhibit data from a past request or session. I want to address sincere congratulations to Charlie Smurthwaite of aTech Media for the really detailed traces he provided which made it possible to find the cause of this bug. Every user of 1.5-dev, 1.5.x or 1.6-dev must upgrade to 1.5.14 or latest 1.6-dev snapshot to fix this issue, or use the backport of the fix provided by their operating system vendors. CVE-2015-3281 was assigned to this bug.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84601

File Name: freebsd_pkg_cbfa8bd724b611e586ff14dae9d210b8.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:haproxy, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3281

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